Combined receptacle and printing device



Jan. 8, 1935. D, TAYL R 1,987,379

COMBINED RECEPTACLE AND PRINTING DEVICE Filed Jan. 50. 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet l I INVENTOR. Fem DAN/EL. C. Viv Lola A ORNEYS.

Jan. 8, 1935. D. c. TAYLOR COMBINED RECEPTACLE AND PRINTING DEVICE Filed Jan. 30, 1953 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR.

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9 DAN/EL. C. 77IYLOIQ Patented Jan. 8, 1935 UNITED. STATES COMBINED RECEPTACLE AND PRINTING DEVICE Daniel C. Taylor, Los Angeles, Calif., assignor to W. C. Taylor, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application January 30, 1933 Serial No. 654,339

6 Claims.

This invention relates to and has for a purpose a combined receptacle and printing device wherein the receptacle is adapted to receive a sales book with any desired sheet or set of sheets of the book disposed and properly supported for writing and for printing thereon, all in such manner with respect to the printing device that upon actuation of the latter an accurate and legible impression from type associated with the device can be quickly produced on the sheet or sheets thus disposed.

In the conduct of business involving charge or credit accounts, it is the usual practice in making a record of a sale, for the clerk or attendant to write in on a sales slip the name, address, and possibly other information relating to the identity of the customer. This operation involves a considerable loss of the clerks time, and becomes a serious time and money loss when inthe bookkeeping department it is found difficult or impossible to decipher such written matter on sales slips, due to illegibility or poor reproduction on the carbon copies.

The provision of this invention entirely obviates such disadvantages of present systems, by enabling the necessary data relating to the customers identity or other subject matter to be legibly impressed on the sales slips by a printing operation from a token or other authorization, such as a type plate forexample, which is supplied to the customer in lieu of a credit card and is presented to the clerk for use each time a purchase is made. The invention is capable of use with autographic registers, automatic'sales books or sales books utilizing cne time carbon sheets or separate carbon sheets.-

Another object of the invention is the provisionof a device which is exceedingly useful in such places as automobile service stations and other places of business, and whichischaracter ture to the sheet bearing the purchased items,

capable of use as such independently of the receptacle for the sales book.

Only one form of the invention will be described, following which its novel features will be pointed out in claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l is a view showing inplan one form of the invention;

Figure 2 is a vation;

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1, and illustrating another position from that shown in the preceding figures; I

Figures 4 and 5 are transverse sectional views taken respectively on the-lines 4=4 and 55 of Figure 2.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts in each of the several views.

Referring specifically to the drawings, this invention broadly comprises a support in the form of a receptacle R for a sales book, and a printing device D associated therewith. The receptacle R is in the form of a rectangular box, the dimensions of which are such as to freely receive a conventional sales book of a certain size. ,The bottom wall 10 of the receptacle is provided with a large opening, and the side and end walls 11 and 12 of the receptacle are recessed from their upper edges, all as shown in the drawings and for the purpose of reducing weight.

The top wall of the receptacle, which is in the form of a rigidand flat plate, constitutes a backing member 13 for a sheet or set of sheets of a sales book, the member being pivotally mounted on thereceptacle at one end thereof as indicated at 14. The pivotal mounting of the backing member enablesthe latter to be swung to an open position at an angleto the receptacle for the convenient insertion and removal of a sales book, or to a closed position wherein the member rests upon the side walls 11-11, and terminates at its free end in spaced relation to the corresponding end wall 12 of the receptacle, so that selected sheets from the sales book within the receptacle can extend from the book and overlie the member as shown in the drawings, for writing and/or printing on the thus disposed sheets in a manner to be later described. From the bottom wall of the receptacle extend flat springs 15 which function to urge the sales book towards the top of the receptacle so as to facilitate re moval of the book when the backing member is swung to open position.

The printing device D comprises a type holder view of the invention in side ele- 16 in the form of a rectangular body from the end of which project laterally arms 17-17 through the free end portions of which extends a pin 18 also passing through lugs 19-19 projecting from the receptacle R to mount the type holder on the receptacle for pivotal movement. That surface of the type holder which is in confronting relation to the backing member 13 when the type holder occupies the printing position shown in Figures 1 and 2 is recessed to provide guideways 2020 adapted to slidably receive the opposite longitudinal edges of a type plate 21 of rectangular outline. Suitably embossed on the type plate is the subject matter, such as a customers name, address, etc., to be impressed onv the sheets of the sales book overlying the backing member.

Journaled in the type holder so as to extend parallel to the axis of the pivotal mounting of the holder on the receptacle is a shaft 22, the ends of which project beyond the type holder. A collar 23 and operating member 24 are fixed to the shaft at respectively opposite ends of the type holder and coact to prevent axial displacement of the shaft. The operating member 24 provides a means by which the shaft can be manually rotated.

The ends of the shaft 22 project beyond the collar and operating member and are provided with longitudinal recesses 2525 which define hooks 26 adapted, when the type holder occupies the position shown in Figure 2, to be interengaged with hooks 27-27 formed on brackets 2828 fixed by fastening members 29 to the side walls 1111 of the receptacle. The hooks 2626 and 27-27, when interengaged, are'adapted to coact upon rotation of the shaft 22 by the operating member 24 in the direction of the arrow in Figure 2, in forcing the type holder in the direction of the backing member and towards a platen 30 of yieldable material such as rubber, which covers a portion of the backing member.

The pivotal mounting enables the type holder to be swung away from the backing member sufficiently to enable the latter to be moved to its open position so that a sales book can be readily inserted into and removed from the receptacle. The opening movement of the type holder is limited by a pin 31 projecting from the receptacle in the path of movement of one of the arms 17. In its fully open position, the type holder is inverted so as to dispose the type plate uppermost for convenient access thereto.

The operation of the invention is as follows:

The type holder 16 is first swung to its open position so as to enable the backing member 13 to be opened for the insertion of a sales book into the receptacle. It is to be understood that the sales book sheets are arranged in sets, the number of sheets in each set being dependent on the number of carbon duplicates to be made. Thesales book may be provided with carbon backed sheets, one time carbon sheets, or separate carbon sheets, but in any instance a relatively small carbon sheet 32 as shown in Figure 1 overlies a portion of the first sheet of each set at a location to receive an impression from type on the type plate which is inserted into the type holder.

When the sales book is placed in the receptacle, the sheets of the first set are turned to overlie the backing member 13 which forms a rigid support for the sheets and separates the latter from the remaining sheets to prevent the transferrence of impressions to the latter.

When a sale is made, the customer, who, in accordance with this system of handling charge or credit accounts, is provided with one of the type plates 21 bearing his name, address and other desired information in type, presents the type plate to the clerk who then inserts the plate into the type holder 16.

The type holder is now swung to the printing position following which the operating member 24 is actuated to rotate the shaft 22 and engage the hooks 26 with the hooks 27 of the brackets 28. Continued rotation of the shaft by the operating member will cause the enterengaged hooks to coact in forcing the type holder towards the backing member, and the type on the plate 21 into impressing contact with the carbon sheet 32, thus producing an impression of the type on the first sheet of the set, the impression being transferred to the remaining sheets of the set by the carbon sheets interposed therebetween.

The details of the sale are written on the first sheet of the set by the clerk, and the device, which is extremely portable, is presented to the customer for signature. The type plate is removed from the holder and returned to the customer, and one or more of the marked sheets is removed from the sales book in accordance with the bookkeeping system followed in conducting the business. The sales book is now removed from the receptacle so as to enable the next set of sheets to be arranged to overlie the backing member upon re-insertion of the book into the receptacle.

It will be manifest that the invention in its broad aspect provides a sales book receptacle with which a printing device is combined and correlated in a manner to enable an impression from type to be readily produced upon a sheet or sheets of a sales book within the receptacle, all to the end of obviating the time and money losses attendant the present methods of filling out sales slips in making sales on charge or credit accounts. Furthermore, the invention in another of its aspects, provides an extremely simple and eflicient printing device which is capable of use independently of a receptacle for a sales book or sales sheets.

I claim:

1. A device of the class described comprising a receptacle adapted to receive a sales book; a backing member pivotally mounted on the receptacle to occupy an open position to permit the insertion of a-sales book into the receptacle, and a closed position wherein sheets from the book can overlie the backing member; a type holder; and means for pivotally mounting the type holder on the receptacle to occupy a position confronting the backing member fora printing operation, and a position sufficiently clear of the backing member to enable the latter to be moved to its open position. r

2. A device of the class described comprising a receptacle adapted to receive a sales book; a backing member movably mounted on the receptacle to occupy an open position to permit the insertion of a sales book into the receptacle, and a closed position wherein sheets from the book can overlie the backing member; a type holder; and means for mounting the type holder on the receptacle for movement to produce an impression from type on the holder, upon a sheet overlying the backing member.

3. A device of the class described comprising a receptacle mounted to receive a sales book; abacking member movably mounted on the receptacle to occupy an open position to permit the insertion of a sales book into the receptacle, and a closed position wherein sheets from the book can overlie the backing member; a type holder; means for movably mounting the type holder on the receptacle; and means by which the type holder can be actuated to produce an impression from type on the holder, upon a sheet overlying the backing member.

4. A device of the character described comprising a generally rectangular receptacle the top wall of which forms a backing member and terminates in spaced relation to one end of the receptacle to provide a slot through which sheets of a sales book confined in the receptacle are adapted to extend and to overlie the backing member; a type holder; means for mounting said holder on the receptacle for movement enabling an impression from type in the holder to be produced on a sheet overlying the backing member, and means for pivotally connecting the backing member with the receptacle to enable same to be swung to a position to expose the book for entire withdrawal thereof from the receptacle.

5. A device of the character described comprising a generally rectangular receptacle having its top open at one end of the receptacle to permit sheets of a sales book in the receptacle to be extended therefrom when the book is disposed with its binding at said one end of the receptacle; the receptacle including a pivotally mounted top wall forming a backing member on which the extended sheets are adapted to rest; a type holder; and means for mounting said holder on the receptacle for movement enabling a type impression to be produced on the extended sheets adjacent the binding of the book.

6. A portable sales recording device of a character to be exchanged between persons for marking of a sales sheet by each of the persons, comprising a portable receptacle-like structure of a size to be held in the hand and having a pivotally mounted backing member between which and the bottom portion of the structure a sales book is adapted to be disposed to enable a sales sheet of the book to be manually adjusted to a position to lie flatwise upon the backing member and so that one end thereof can be grasped between the fingers and the sheet torn from the book, and a type holder mounted on said structure for movement enabling a type impression to be produced on the sheet near the opposite end of the sheet.

DANIEL C. TAYLOR. 

